Archives of my old blog now online!
Read what I wrote years ago
Recently (this year) I switched from my own self-hosted blogging solution to Substack. As part of my transition, I was not able to bring my blog history with me. Mostly since I used a custom blog engine and Substack doesn’t know how to import blog posts from that engine (and they shouldn’t have to - expecting them to know how every blog engine made by every random person isn’t practical. In fact, I’m quite impressed that they’re able to import blogs from just some engines!).
I didn’t manually bring my posts over either since I couldn’t find a way for Substack to release posts in the past or even with a publish date in the past (if someone knows, please let me know!). So, my solution was to make a dump of the raw, final HTML pages and then later get them up online under an “archives” site.
Well, they’re up now at https://archives.matthewtolman.com/! Anyone can read my old posts now. Sadly, there isn’t the ability for people to comment on the archives, but you can comment on this post. Have fun!